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House & Furniture Nov. 10. 1794
Decorations for the
Barr: where refreshments
are
served out
Compressed Air Fountains
of Copper plated
with Silver
Liquors flowing.
1. Rose-Water
2. Orange-flower Water
3. Lavender Water
4. Hungary Water
They may be plain
or coloured.
Room perfumed
by invisible Electrical
fountain of Rose-Water
Lenses with coloured
fluids illuminated.
Lenses with immiscible
fluids differently
coloured — observe
the effect in the
way of refraction.
Spectra by rotation of a wheel
composed of prismatic
spokes — Argand's Lamp
with reflectors behind.
The Spector thrown in
Virtual Plates of Paper
Magic-Lantern
differently coloured, or
Exhibitions
on reflecting Suns with
rotating with rays of
different inclinations.
Water Fireworks by
burning Gunpowder
under water under the with
the tallest Receivers
that can be got. The
operator concealed in
a Cupboard, with a
chimney to carry off
the air generated at
first before the immersion
can be performed.
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other tall Receivers
with oxygen air
and wick to burn
in them
For supporting
Grapes — a silver
Girandole in form
of a tree — the
bunches tied by threads
to the branches. This
might force middle
piece even during dinner
time.
Services, not pendulums,
but sticking
in something
either by themselves
or with the grapes.
Conversation Tubes
for giving orders &c
from one extremity
of the suite to the other
Young single Women
to have blank invitations
given them that
for them to fill up with
the names of their sweethearts
So young men for
theirs, only under the
condition of naming
them, lest they should
introduce women of
bad repute.
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J.B.s company-receiving
room the
corner room on
the Ground Floor
J.Bs working not-at
-home room
the corner two-pair
of-stairs room.
The Balcony
Garden to terminate
at each end
in a looking-glass
to be in general
shut up by a
door, occasionally
opened when there
is company.
The door shutting
up the looking glass
to be lined also with
looking-glass, so
that when opened
it may open to a
right angle.
The Balcony Balustrade
— made of simple
parallel bars
The Balcony as
broad as may be
to hold plants &
allow a person to
wash.
Both looking-glasses
may curve in
like window-shutters
on ordinary
days — presenting
the looking glasses
both of them to the
room, appearing
as shutters on the
outside
The width may be
at least as great as
that of a door.
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The center room
might have a
slight bow to
it in which the
company may
look at the looking
-glass termination
of the Balcony at
cellar end, and
see it multiplied
ad infinitum
The bow, not to
part the Architecture
might be occasionally
Passage carpeted
for woman sake whosoever
feel occasion
to come with
a border of Mosaic
in marble
Roof ceiling if the Long
Passage coved
might it not have
something of the
Grain-Arch-work
kind to take off
from the two great
multiplicity — something appro particularly
of the the form of Gothic
Though each compartment
taken by
itself might be very simple, yet the multitude
of compartments
one behind another
might form a pleasing
kind of confusion
and variety
Flower-Pots in
the — as pleasing
as statues, and
much less expensive.
The light windows
might look best perhaps
in transverse
stripes — but in longitudinal
they would
be much less expensive.
Opposite the street
door should be which
should be glass, should
be glass door into the
garden for the sake of
the vista.
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For the lights to the
Long Passage, Melon-glasses
like those at
the Bank, but with
stripes of colour'd glasses
See L. Dudley & Ward's
and the Kentish Town
Chapel.
In Glass Chandeliers
as the connecting
the look black &
ugly, bring them up rough
cut glass beads which may
be of different colours.
Ornaments for Desert.
Columns of hollow
glass filled with coloured
fluids.
Dr Do with Gold
leaf.
Lined with gold
leaf and filled with
coloured fluids — the
gold leaf interrupted
in arches or other figures
Could story of Phaethon
be thus exhibited, his chariot
setting the world on fire
by or chemistry?
A of any spot
that appears to be the
topic of conversation for
the day, to be made by
the marble mosaic
work: viz: glass with glass heads to
inside cushions
It may be drawn very
large by a Pantograph
Decorations for the niches
1. Plants and Flowers
2. Vases of artificial stone
3. &c
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Columns, Arches &c
Pilasters
Doors &c of
hollow glass with
water and gold fish
illuminated by Argand's
lamps on the
outside — or in
inclosed spaces in
the inside.
Instead of the
Canary-Bird in
the inside of the
globe with Gold-fish
an Argand's
Lamp: the air
coming through the
[3] supports.
Globes — the supports
hollow glass
with leaf gold on the
outside.
Geographical
the Map: upon a
very large scale drawn
by a Pantograph
The numerous
and the leaves shiftable,
so that the
map or maps which
happen to be the topic
of the day may be introduced
into the drawing room on
that day.
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Bricks of the same
of the stones of
a free-stone Building,
glazed of
a pearl colour, or
of a colour between
a pearl-colour and
a slate.
So, the wall on
the Queen's Square
side, and a high
wall to be built on
the side of the Barracks
high enough
to conceal them
So, a low wall parallel to the House
for the Balustrade to
stand upon.
Do the Garden Walls
except which are
painted invisible
green.
From the Balcony
a Rope Ladder for
escaping from fire, with
a pole to hoist it up
to the story above -
This particularly applicable
to the S.B. Street
But fire scarce possible
in either
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The buildings in the
neighbour's garden
to be painted with
landscapes al fresco
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